Professor Nathan Hughes responds to the UK Government’s 2025 Spending Review in relation to children’s social care.
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Left on the Back-Burner: Adult Social Care and the 2025 Spending Review
The Centre for Care team respond to last week’s 2025 UK government Spending Review.
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The launch of our unpaid care dashboard is on 11th June 2025.
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Charlie Grosset explores the recent UK welfare reforms focusing on the emotional, social and financial impact on disabled people.
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A powerful insight into the difficult transitions this author has faced, navigating life as a Young Adult carer.
Read more about Navigating Life as a Young Adult carerSeminar: Understanding suicide and homicide risk in unpaid carers, Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer
We virtually welcomed Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer from the University of Birmingham, to present Understanding suicide and homicide risk in unpaid carers. A recording of the presentation is now available to watch.
Read more about Seminar: Understanding suicide and homicide risk in unpaid carers, Dr Siobhan O’DwyerUnpaid Carers: Will the next government acknowledge their value?
Maxine Watkins writes about the invaluable contribution unpaid carers make to society and how crucial it is that the next government prioritises their needs in policymaking and resource allocation.
Read more about Unpaid Carers: Will the next government acknowledge their value?We welcomed Dr Sophie Rutter from the Information School, University of Sheffield, to present Community care workers’ access to hygiene facilities: the right to working conditions which “respect health, safety and dignity”
Read more about Seminar: Community care workers’ access to hygiene facilities: the right to working conditions which “respect health, safety and dignity”We welcomed Dr Yanan Zhang to present ‘Health inequalities across older adults cared for by daughters and sons in modernising China’ on 28th May 2024. A recording of the presentation is now available to watch.
Read more about Seminar: Health inequalities across older adults cared for by daughters and sons in modernising ChinaSue Yeandle comments on the recent reporting on Carer’s Allowance, providing context and highlighting the need for much overdue reform.
Read more about Carer’s allowance: let’s end this scandal now!New report- Unpaid carers saving Northern Ireland’s health service £5.8 billion per year
New research by Centre for Care colleagues Jingwen Zhang, Maria Petrillo & Matt Bennett, in collaboration with Carers NI, estimates the value of unpaid care in Northern Ireland.
Read more about New report- Unpaid carers saving Northern Ireland’s health service £5.8 billion per yearWork, life care? Supporting carers to find the right balance for them
This European Carers Day we explore the importance of a work-life-care balance for carers, and the support and policies needed to make that a reality.
Read more about Work, life care? Supporting carers to find the right balance for themWelfare technology for older people and their informal carers in a Swedish context
A newly published PhD-thesis on welfare technology for older people and their informal carers in a Swedish context by Maria Nilsson, doctoral student at the Swedish Family Care Competence Centre.
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